April 2024
#MeToo setback: NY court overturns Harvey Weinstein rape conviction
The New York ruling reopens a painful chapter in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures.
- Michael R. Sisak and Dave Collins
March 2024
Spurned, slighted, rejected: Oscar snubs critics will never get over
There are some movies and artists that memorably – and some would say outrageously – got the brush off from the academy.
- Brooks Barnes
July 2023
Meet one of history’s most influential designers
One of the most imaginative minds in American culture, costume master Ann Roth is being recognised for her influence over 50 years of iconic movies.
- Maureen Dowd
April 2023
- Analysis
- Crime
Why paying hush money can be a crime
Non-disclosure agreements have long been used by companies and private individuals to avoid litigation and keep embarrassing information confidential. So, why is the hush money supposedly paid by Donald Trump such a problem?
- Michael Rothfeld
February 2023
Harvey Weinstein begs for leniency in rape prison sentence
The 16-year sentence for sexual assault furthers the fall of the onetime movie magnate who became a #MeToo magnet.
- Andrew Dalton
December 2022
Los Angeles jury finds Weinstein guilty of rape in mixed verdict
After deliberating for nine days, the jury of eight men and four women reached the verdict at the second criminal trial of the 70-year-old former movie mogul.
- Lauren Herstik, Jill Cowan and Livia Albeck-Ripka
Harvey Weinstein found guilty of rape in Los Angeles trial
After deliberating for nine days, the jury of eight men and four women reached the verdict at the second criminal trial of the 70-year-old former movie mogul.
- Andrew Dalton
Sale values Brad Pitt’s Plan B at $440m
The actor’s independent production house is ready to go “grander and more global” after a deal to sell a stake to France’s Mediawan.
- Updated
- Alex Barker and Leila Abboud
November 2022
Remove the secrecy from sex harassment cases: Jenkins
Non-disclosure agreements have a place in workplace sexual harassment claims, but their use should not be the norm, says Kate Jenkins.
- Julie Hare
Lee Child on the joys of legal marijuana and a run in with Weinstein
After selling $4.6 billion worth of books and buying a Renoir with Hollywood money, the Jack Reacher creator is putting his pen down but not without the last word.
- Ed Cumming
CBS, Moonves ordered to pay $47m for insider trading
The broadcast giant is required to pay $US22 million to shareholders and another $US6 million for sexual harassment and assault programs.
- Bobby Caina Calvan and Stefanie Dazio
October 2022
- Opinion
- MeToo movement
Five years on from #MeToo, what has actually changed?
The movement’s legacies are largely abstract: people “think” differently now; the “climate” has changed. But women aren’t much safer.
- Sarah Manavis
March 2022
Will Smith apologises to Chris Rock for slap, academy mulls action
Smith, in a post on Instagram, said his behaviour at the televised ceremony was ‘unacceptable and inexcusable’.
- Lisa Richwine
January 2022
When ignorance isn’t bliss: the real moral reckoning in Maxwell case
When it comes to abuse and what you should have known, ignorance is no excuse.
- Sanford Goldberg and Chicago Tribune
December 2021
2022 is a big year for big films
January will see the year off to an exceptionally strong start and if the cinemas only manage to stay open, we’ll have something good to remember.
- John McDonald
Ghislaine Maxwell ‘too fragile’ to testify in sex-trafficking trial
Defence calls renowned psychologist, who says research has shown people can develop memories about events that didn’t happen.
- Julie K. Brown and Ben Wieder
Nearly 50,000 Facebook users likely targets of private surveillance
Facebook is notifying nearly 50,000 users in more than 100 countries that they may have been targets of hacking attempts by surveillance companies.
- Craig Timberg
December 2020
Charlize Theron: ‘My industry is embarrassed’
The actor is hoping Bombshell will remind audiences that sexual harassment and assault is a ‘non-partisan issue’.
- Abby Aguirre
August 2020
- Analysis
- Courts
Johnny Depp, the High Court and the reality of fame
The libel trial brought by the Pirates of the Caribbean star says as much about the dazzle of celebrity as the quest for truth.
- Henry Mance
July 2020
Does cancel culture actually exist?
For the better part of the last decade, we have given a label to something that has existed for the length of human history.
- Sarah Manavis